Living Life Usefully

Maxwell Leadership Podcast

John Maxwell

Business, Leadership, Education, Johnmaxwell

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

John Maxwell teaches three factors that determine if you are living life usefully. After John’s lesson, Chris Goede joins Mark Cole to talk about helpful ways you can apply this lesson to your life and leadership.

Key takeaways from this lesson:

Relationships help us to define who we are and what we can become
Over time, people come to share reciprocally, similar attitudes towards each other
“People say that we are all seeking the meaning of life ... I think that what we are really seeking is an experience of being alive.” -Joseph Campbell

Our BONUS resource for this episode is the “Living Life Usefully Worksheet,” which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Living and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. This is the podcast that is committed to adding
0:22.8	value to you, a leader who will multiply value to others. My name is Mark Cole and today
0:29.3	John Maxwell is going to teach you three factors that determine if you're living life
0:35.2	usefully. We know you're living life, but we want that usefully to be there. After John's lesson,
0:41.4	Chris Goady is going to join me in studio and we're going to talk about helpful ways that we can
0:46.4	apply this lesson to life and leadership. If you'd like to watch this episode on YouTube, please go to
0:53.2	MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash YouTube. If you'd like to download the free worksheet that
1:00.3	accompanies John's lesson, visit MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash living and click the bonus resource
1:08.4	button. Now that's it. Get ready to put more purpose into your life. Here is John Maxwell.
1:14.9	Then Franklin once wrote, I would rather have it said he lived usefully than he died rich. Instead of
1:28.3	seeing the world in terms of how much money he could make, Franklin saw the world in terms of
1:33.9	how many people he could help. The Benjamin Franklin being useful was its own reward. Isn't that a
1:41.9	great statement to be said about a man? That's why I'm titling this lesson, living life usefully.
1:48.4	You see, I find a lot of people when I talk about living life usually, that they just keep postponing
1:53.0	life. They just think that somehow, somewhere, at some time, life will get better for them. I read
2:03.6	this the other day. It's not in your notes. First, I was dying to finish high school and start
2:08.8	college and then I was dying to finish college and start working and then I was dying to marry
2:14.1	and have children. Then I was dying for my children to grow old enough so I could return to work.
2:19.4	Then I was dying to retire and now I'm dying. Suddenly, I forgot how to live.
2:28.3	Dwight Thompson in your notes said that you can spend your life any way you want to,
2:33.0	but you can only spend it once. As the bell more said, life is a one-way street.
2:38.4	No matter how many detours you take, none of them leads back. Once you know and accept that,
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